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Adam Clark

Is Atheism Irrational? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "This is the first in a series of interviews about religion that I will conduct for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Alvin Plantinga, an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, a former president of both the Society of Christian Philosophers and the American Philosophical Association, and the author, most recently, of "Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism.""
Adam Clark

New study says Internet could be why Americans are losing their religion - Salon.com - 0 views

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    "New research from Allen Downey, a computer scientist at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, shows a startling correlation between the rise of the Internet and the decline of religious affiliation in the United States. According to MIT Technology Review, back in 1990 only eight percent of the U.S. population did not have a religious affiliation. Twenty years later in 2010 that number was up to 18 percent. That is a jump of 25 million people. Americans seem to be losing their religion, and from Downey's research we may have an answer."
Adam Clark

As a Religion, Marijuana-Infused Faith Pushes Commonly Held Limits - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "On July 29, Mr. Christie's lawyer will argue in Hawaii federal court that his client should be allowed to present a religious-freedom defense at the eventual criminal trial. He will base his argument on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed by Congress in 1993, which requires the government to show a "compelling interest" whenever it "substantially burdens" a religious practice. In 2006, the Supreme Court relied on the act to permit a New Mexico church to use the hallucinogen hoasca, or ayahuasca, for sacramental purposes."
Adam Clark

Mehdi Hasan - Islam Is A Peaceful Religion Debate In Oxford University - YouTube - 0 views

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Adam Clark

Mehdi Hasan - Islam Is A Peaceful Religion Debate In Oxford University - YouTube - 0 views

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Adam Clark

Je Suis Ahmed | - 1 views

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    "I posted about the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo on Facebook and offered my condolences to the victims and their families. I spent the next 24 hours moderating comments, at first arguing with people who were quoting the Qur'an, then wholesale deleting comments and banning users. Most of them were trolling the trending topic and commenting on my page for the first time. There seems to be a small army of hate-filled anti-Islam racists ready and eager to turn this tragedy into their personal platform for why all Muslims should be (take your pick): shipped back home, eradicated, banned from immigrating or stripped of their religion. "
Rebekah Madrid

Monoculture: How Our Era's Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives | Brain Pickings - 1 views

  • What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is moulding your taste in art.
  • The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed.
  • During the Middle Ages, the dominant monoculture was one of religion and superstition. When Galileo challenged the Catholic Church’s geocentricity with his heliocentric model of the universe, he was accused of heresy and punished accordingly, but he did spark the drawn of the next monoculture, which reached a tipping point in the seventeenth century as humanity came to believe the world was fully knowable and discoverable through science, machines and mathematics — the scientific monoculture was born.
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    Could be a great jumping off point for a presentation.
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